Dubizzle Updates App With New Features

By
Chris FernandoJune 16, 2016, 1:03 p.m.

New features include In-App Chat, ‘Make an Offer’ function and upgraded User Profiles.

Dubizzle, one of UAE’s leading classifieds platforms, has announced its first major app upgrade, with new features including In App Chat, ‘Make an Offer’ feature and upgraded User Profile features, allowing its 5 million active users a more interactive, seamless and secure app experience than ever before.

With over half (57%) of visits to Dubizzle made via the platform’s mobile website and app. Due to this, Dubizzle is investing in a ‘mobile first’ approach to enhancing its users’ experience.

Through the new features, buyers and sellers can now enjoy a new In App Chat function when viewing an ad. Talking directly and securely with the seller is now possible, with the chat conversations automatically saved for future reference. Introducing the Chat function provides an additional level of privacy and convenience, allowing buyers and sellers to instantly communicate via the app without the need for phone-calls or texts.

For added convenience, users are also able to log into the app using a Facebook log in feature, removing the need for remembering their Dubizzle account password. UAE bargain hunters are now also able to make a direct offer to a seller through Dubizzle’s new ‘Make an Offer’ feature, which alerts the seller immediately of a direct offer made on an item for sale, streamlining and speeding up the buy/sell process.

The new app upgrades also allow users to view and explore additional items the seller has listed with a single click on the seller’s profile. This added feature also shows when the seller joined Dubizzle and indicates if the seller’s email and phone number have been verified by the Dubizzle Customer Support team.

Commenting on the introduction of the enhanced features, Razan Al-Masri, Mobile Product Marketing Manager at Dubizzle, said: “Mobile phones have become our main source of information and communication in today’s ‘always on’ society, overtaking desktop usage. The Middle East and Africa region’s mobile phone user base is now second only to that in Asia-Pacific, and the UAE has the highest per capita mobile phone penetration in the region, at 80.6 per cent of the population which is estimated to increase to 82.8 per cent by 2019."

“We have noticed continuously increasing usage of our mobile app since its launch in 2014, and now currently over 57 per cent of visits to Dubizzle come via our mobile app and mobile website. Through our most recent app enhancements, we’ve aimed to give our users a faster, interactive and more streamlined app experience. We are keen to hear our users feedback on the newly-introduced functions, as we seek to constantly evolve our product offerings to suit their ever-changing needs."